How are Cartoons and Animes *produced*

[na_th_an]

well, nate, nobody but don bluth has the spare time and money to buy an animation studio and make movies himself. i think pj here's best shot is to scan some hi-contrast ink drawings. a simple backlight costs about 25 bucks (i invested in one awhile ago for some of my art), but you can improvise with a translucent cutting board propped over a flash light. the general idea is just to get a light shining through the back of the paper so you trace for animations. anyhow, scan them black and white at a high res, color and scale them down for anti-aliasing. that way you dont have to deal with little tiny light-colored dusts and scratches and the like. you're going to need a routine anyhow to push out animations.

That was my point, more or less. I suggested him to use his compute and throw away that idea of making real animes.

I used once translucent paper (vegetal paper is called in spanish), which is a good deal. I just drawed every frame and scanned them, and made the animations using a DOS program. They looked fine. Anyhow, having flash I won't consider another option. Flash rocks if you know what you are doing. You can do normal animation using flash: just set the rate to 15 fps and draw each frame. Flash even has that trasnlucent paper feature where you see the previous frames while you are drawing the current, so it rocks.